Hillary Clinton’s So-Called “Popular Vote” Win Came From ONE STATE
Reports are showing that Hillary Clinton’s supposed “popular vote” win is from one state.
California.
Now that all of the votes are counted, and the final numbers are in, Hillary’s “impressive” margins are not looking quite so amazing.
Clinton’s YUGE victory in California, a state that has come under fire for illegals voting, appears to be what pushed her over the top.
From Investors.com
Democrats who are having trouble getting out of the first stage of grief — denial — aren’t being helped by the fact that, now that all the votes are counted, Hillary Clinton’s lead in the popular vote has topped 2.8 million, giving her a 48% share of the vote compared with Trumps 46%.
To those unschooled in how the United States selects presidents, this seems totally unfair. But look more closely at the numbers and you see that Clinton’s advantage all but disappears.
As we noted in this space earlier, while Clinton’s overall margin looks large and impressive, it is due to Clinton’s huge margin of victory in one state — California — where she got a whopping 4.3 million more votes than Trump.
California is the only state, in fact, where Clinton’s margin of victory was bigger than President Obama’s in 2012 — 61.5% vs. Obama’s 60%.
But California is the exception that proves the true genius of the Electoral College — which was designed to prevent regional candidates from dominating national elections.
In recent years, California has been turning into what amounts to a one-party state. Between 2008 and 2016, the number of Californian’s who registered as Democrats climbed by 1.1 million, while the number of registered Republicans dropped by almost 400,000.
What’s more, many Republicans in the state had nobody to vote for in November.
There were two Democrats — and zero Republicans — running to replace Sen. Barbara Boxer. There were no Republicans on the ballot for House seats in nine of California’s congressional districts.
At the state level, six districts had no Republicans running for the state senate, and 16 districts had no Republicans running for state assembly seats.
Plus, since Republicans knew Clinton was going to win the state — and its entire 55 electoral votes — casting a ballot for Trump was virtually meaningless, since no matter what her margin of victory, Clinton was getting all 55 votes.
Is it any wonder then, that Trump got 11% fewer California votes than John McCain did in 2008? (Clinton got 6% more votes than Obama did eight years ago, but the number of registered Democrats in the state climbed by 13% over those years.)
If you take California out of the popular vote equation, then Trump wins the rest of the country by 1.4 million votes. And if California voted like every other Democratic state — where Clinton averaged 53.5% wins — Clinton and Trump end up in a virtual popular vote tie. (This was not the case in 2012. Obama beat Romney by 2 million votes that year, not counting California.)
Meanwhile, if you look at every other measure, Trump was the clear and decisive winner in this election.
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Number of states won:
Trump: 30
Clinton: 20
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Trump: +10Number of electoral votes won:
Trump: 306
Clinton: 232
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Trump: + 68Ave. margin of victory in winning states:
Trump: 56%
Clinton: 53.5%
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Trump: + 2.5 pointsPopular vote total:
Trump: 62,958,211
Clinton: 65,818,318
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Clinton: + 2.8 millionPopular vote total outside California:
Trump: 58,474,401
Clinton: 57,064,530
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Trump: + 1.4 million
Amy Moreno is a Published Author, Pug Lover & Game of Thrones Nerd. You can follow her on Twitter here and Facebook here.
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So linking an article from another online newsite now passes as reporting/writing?
Sad!
What are you sad about? This is the Sad state of California, where Mexican legals or not want to control the State of California decisions to their advantage only. Another problem is the La Raza radical racism of Mexicans..
Sure California with over 38 million people, not counting the illegals, are more than 12% of the entire USA population at 318 million. The “Land of Fruits & Nuts” full of Liberal attitudes thinks they should be in charge of and making decisions for the rest of us. Well to all the Californian’s that votes for Hillary, go have a coffee enema and cry, because your candidate LOST and OURS is in charge. Remember the hope and change, well we hope to change your life too, get used to it.
California needs to be the fist stop for the deportation train. All the Government has to do is Order CA to turn over all records of Drivers Licenses of the undocumented people that had been issued one in San Jose, CA at the Undocumented DMV on Senter Road!
California says they want to leave the United States..Let them..Bunch of Liberal weirdo freaks who love their cheap illegal Alien labor…We also keep the Hollyweirds away..Lets build the wall all around california where it meets the States and keep them with Mexico.
Nope we are a nation “From Sea To Shining Sea”, they don’t get to take that ocean front property away from us! They wanna live like it’s Mexico, let them GO to Mexico, Mexico would be thrilled to have Hollyweirdos to boost their popularity too. Besides this so many advantages await them their like cheaper: liposuction, facelifts, plastic implants, fake breasts, makeup, wigs, fancy dresses, shoes, their products are more California friendly too w/ less chemicals for health ex. Soda pop is made w/ real sugar rather than syrups there, medicine (drugs) do not need a prescription to purchase, and lord knows they likely need antibiotics with the general sexual lifestyles promoted in their worlds, etc.
@Lynette, Great points.
This site has dedicated itself to scanning liberal media and analyzing the truth in their feed. Are you intelligent enough to acknowledge that? Please respond as I am looking forward to it!
Ever seen Yahoo?
I think she does a great job. Love the site.
Amy Moreno, shame on you… you stole JOHN MERLINE’s entire article. That’s really very shady.
You added just THREE sentences to the beginning. This is not journalism, this is copyright infringement.
You need to fix this right quick before he thinks to sue you.
*My apologies if you already received his permission to reprint his work in it’s entirety.
If this is the case, may I suggest that you state so within this piece for reader clarification and proper
credit to it’s author.
Lynette,
You are a flake and you CLEARLY owe Amy an apology. You jump down her throat to clarify her article when it clearly states at the top that it was taken from Investors.com. Read first, act out inappropriately second. The SHAME you speak of belongs on YOU. Also, the asterisk at the end of your message doesnt excuse the beginning. Thats very junior high.